Insulin sensitivity on the other hand, is the term used to describe how responsive your cells are to insulin or how well they can utilize it for glucose conversion.

If your cells can't work well with the released insulin, then energy production goes down. Since the insulin now stays in circulation, a host of health problems will arise too. That's what insulin resistance is.

And if insulin resistance is left untreated and the condition becomes worse, eventually turning into chronic one, you may soon find yourself with type 2 diabetes.

Here are the 5 ways to naturally prevent this and make your body more insulin sensitive naturally:

#5. Limit your Intake of PUFA

Polyunsaturated fatty-acids (PUFA) are hailed as healthy fats, when in reality they're quite possibly the worst type of lipids you can consume.

This is because - due to their long chain of double carbon bonds - they are incredibly sensitive to oxidation by heat, oxygen, and light.

The best types of exercise for promoting insulin sensitivity are walking in nature (low-stress, easy to do daily) and heavy weight lifting (which activates the GLUT4 protein in the skeletal tissue, helping the muscle cells utilize carbs and insulin).

#1. Be Lean

This ties in partly to the exercise subheading. As being lean improves insulin sensitivity.

Whereas being fat - well - you know, it correlates highly with insulin resistance.

There are many mechanisms to this, like the systemic inflammation that comes with increased fat percentage, which causes more lipid peroxidation, stress, high cortisol, and trickles down into a plethora of problems that eventually trigger insulin resistance.

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